AstrOmatic software – Astromatic.net

The AstrOmatic software suite currently comprises the following packages, which may be installed together or independently:

EyE: small image feature detector using machine learning
MissFITS: FITS file management
PSFEx: PSF modelling and quality assessment
SCAMP: Astrometric calibration and photometric homogenisation
SExtractor: Source extraction
SkyMaker: Image simulation
STIFF: automated image compositing and conversion
Stuff: Catalogue simulation
SWarp: Image regridding and co-addition
WeightWatcher: weight-map/flag-map multiplexer and rasteriser

Note that other AstrOmatic packages may be in development or even in use at various places, but not yet officially available. Please check out this post for installation instructions.

Recent software releases:

SWarp 2.17.0 release

Posted by Emmanuel in releases, SWarp on January 7, 2008 – 23:05

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Version 2.17.0 improves performance and adds flux correction for variable pixel scales (FSCALASTRO_TYPE VARIABLE). Other improvements include:

support for reading selected FITS extensions for all input images/maps (e.g. image.fits[3] a la CFITSIO).
Added @lists support in all config-file and command-line arguments.

WeightWatcher 1.8.7 release

Posted by Chiara in releases, WeightWatcher on November 21, 2007 – 14:08

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New WeightWatcher 1.8.7 release available! This version fixes a bug in the XML writing (thanks to jankoh for bug report).

WeightWatcher 1.8.6 release

Posted by Chiara in releases, WeightWatcher on November 15, 2007 – 14:06

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New WeightWatcher 1.8.6 release available! This version improves packaging and XSLT translation of output VOTable.

MissFITS 2.2.7 release

Posted by Chiara in MissFITS, releases on November 14, 2007 – 18:49

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New MissFITS 2.2.7 release available! This version fixes a number of bugs concerning XML output files (in VOTable format). XSLT filter is improved.

SCAMP 1.4.0 release

Posted by Emmanuel in releases, SCAMP on October 4, 2007 – 22:57

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SCAMP V1.4.0 released, fixing recent problems with 2MASS and USNO-B1 astrometric reference catalogues caused by unexepected format changes at CDS.